Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 15
Twenty years thus passed will store my mind with images which I shall be busy through the rest of my life in combining and comparing.
Who acts: Twenty years, images, my · What happens: pass, store, be, combine, compare, mind · To what, where: mind, rest
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twenty years, images, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 store | nsubj |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 years | acl |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 store | aux |
| 6 | store | store | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 store | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 images | case |
| 10 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 store | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 busy | nsubj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 busy | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 busy | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 busy | cop |
| 15 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 images | acl:relcl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 rest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 busy | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 combining | mark |
| 23 | combining | combine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 busy | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 comparing | cc |
| 25 | comparing | compare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 combining | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 store | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Twenty years not said here | thus property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | store | future | Twenty years | my mind | with images | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | shall | images | the rest of my life | I nsubj; busy property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | combine | gerund | images not said here | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | compare | gerund | images not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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